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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: Force bash to start as administrator
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:49:29 -0800
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Cary,
>
> Windows already has such a service. Try the following from your bash 
> prompt:
>
> $ at `date -d "next min" +"%H:%M"` /interactive 
> 'c:\cygwin\bin\login.exe' Administrator
>
> and wait at most 60 seconds.
>
> If you want an interactive login, omit the "Administrator" from the 
> line above. Not sure if you'll need password, either (I don't on my 
> W2K machine).
> Igor
> P.S. So much for Windows security, eh?

Ah, wouldn't that be Cygwin's login that was responsible for the 
[non]security? I believe it didn't prompt you for a password because 
Administrator in your /etc/passwd didn't have a password.

Why not simply use Runas?

>
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com wrote:
>
>> You'll need a service to do this in Windows. Windows won't allow any
>> account other than SYSTEM the permissions to impersonate another by
>> default. System services run as SYSTEM by default. You can add a
>> service which invokes 'login' so that the user can log in someone else.
>> This has been discussed before on this list but setting this up goes
>> something like this:
>>
>> Type this in a bash window:
>> cygrunsrv -I LoginShell -d "Login shell" -p /usr/bin/cygstart -a
>> /usr/bin/login -e "CYGWIN=tty binmode ntsec"
>>
>> Go to the Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services
>> Right click on "LoginShell" and go to properties.
>> Go to the "Log On" tab and check the "Allow service to interact with
>> desktop"
>>
>> Follow this with this in a bash window:
>> cygrunsrv -S LoginShell
>>
>> This will give you a new console window with the login prompt. From here,
>> you can log in as anybody, assuming you know the proper passwords. ;-)
>>
>> You should be able to use ssh to do this as well, which should be easier
>> than going through the above gyrations.
>>
>> Obviously, all this assumes that you can install a service or that one is
>> already installed for your use (ssh). Also, the above works on W2K. I
>> can't
>> speak to other platforms, although it should be generally applicable to
>> NT-based platforms (with the possible exception of XP-Home).
>>
>> The rest is obvious, no? ;-)
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>
>> Original Message:
>> -----------------
>> From: Cary Lewis clewis AT mobilecom DOT com
>> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:22:47 -0500
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Force bash to start as administrator
>>
>> I want to be able to start a bash shell as Administrator id=500 
>> regardless
>> of who I am logged into the windows box as. Alternatively can I force 
>> cygwin
>> to ignore the current user credentials and use the Administrator.
>>
>> I would like to be able to do this so that I can standardize my 
>> deployment
>> of Cygwin, I would like any user to always get the same permissions, same
>> home directory, etc.
>>
>> BTW, how does login work in cygwin?
>
>




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